What I Love About my Practice
by Lorilee Keller, Registered Clinical Counsellor, Reiki and Holistic Reproductive Practitioner, Masters in Counselling Psychology
Hi!
I’m Lorilee.
I’m a healer who integrates counselling, somatic therapy, and energy healing to bridge neuroscience and holistic healing. I hold a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from UBC, and I’ve also integrated somatic and energy healing modalities into my practice, such as Reiki Energy Healing, Holistic Somatic Healing, and Shamanic Journeying.
For me, this work is more than a profession—it’s a calling. I feel deeply fulfilled by the opportunity to guide others on their healing journeys.
Mindfulness & Somatic Therapy
Mindfulness, or present moment awareness, is where healing truly begins.
By practicing mindfulness, I help my clients connect with their body sensations, emotions and thought patterns. This connection allows them to recognize the stories or patterns that keep them stuck. Once we are fully present, we can uncover deep-rooted habits and begin to shift them. Witnessing clients make this transformative shift is one of the most gratifying aspects of my work.
As a Somatic Therapist, I focus on helping clients become embodied. During childhood, our bodies develop ingenious ways of leaving the present moment to cope with stress. These coping mechanisms might include shutting down, disconnecting, relying on substances, trying to control everything, or staying perpetually busy. While these adaptations may have served us in the past, they often persist into adulthood and surface automatically during times of overwhelm. We must work through the nervous system to access and shift these survival patterns.
Somatic therapy helps clients become aware of the state of their nervous system and recognize dominant survival patterns that no longer serve them. I find immense joy in guiding clients to bring their bodies out of a fight-or-flight state and into the parasympathetic state. It is in this state of calmness and connection that we can experience true presence and healing.
Through this process, clients learn to reconnect with themselves. They move from a place of imprint—the learned patterns, validations, and conditioning of the past—to what I call the “wise self” or their blueprint. This shift is deeply transformative, and witnessing it is what makes my work so rewarding.
Energy Healing:
I believe the mind and body are deeply connected, and it is through the body that we often hold implicit or unconscious trauma memories. As an energy healer, I help clients to heal and transform the energy of physical, emotional, energetic, and ancestral trauma that is held in their bodies.
This may look like releasing feelings of fear or shame or grief that have been held in the body. It may look like calling back life force energy into the body that has been lost through various traumas. Whatever form these energy healing sessions involve, I am also always filled up with immense gratitude and awe as I walk alongside my clients into their deeply held traumas that they access through this unique type of healing.
My Areas of Speciality:
Although I see clients for a variety of issues, one of my main areas of specialty is reproductive counselling, including infertility, pregnancy loss, pregnancy, birth trauma, and postpartum. I love working with women who are in their reproductive journey because I believe that each transition from fertility to postpartum can bring about challenges and also opportunities for growth.
It is an honour to stand alongside my clients as they let go of control and surrender to their fertility journey, process the grief or anger that may be triggered during pregnancy loss, and grow and expand into different versions of themselves as they go through the initiations of pregnancy and postpartum. I also have training in Womb Energy Healing, a specific type of energy healing that helps to remove energetic blocks and bring life-force energy back into the energetic field of the entire pelvic space.